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- cross-posted to:
- opensource@lemmy.ca
enebe ( @enebe@lemmy.ml ) 23•2 years agoIMHO, blogs are one of the few sources of original content left on the internet. A humble Android tablet with Readify gives me better and less addictive content than any “social network” or “mass media”.
And it’s on us to keep RSS popular and widespread, so they don’t kill it.
electrodynamica ( @electrodynamica@mander.xyz ) 4•2 years agoRSS is kind of a shit protocol. They killed Aaron Swartz for trying to make it better. ActivityPub is a more modern version but the development of that protocol was also disproportionately influenced by in the wrong direction.
Bilb! ( @bilb@lemmy.ml ) 7•2 years agoRSS is a format for data (often served over HTTPS), not a protocol. I don’t really understand comparing a data format to a federated communication protocol.
electrodynamica ( @electrodynamica@mander.xyz ) 5•2 years agoActivityPub is barely more than a format either. In fact, the things that are supposed to be protocol are completely disagreed about by all the major softwares, making it useless as a protocol anyway.
I get the feeling that it’s working pretty well
electrodynamica ( @electrodynamica@mander.xyz ) 6•2 years agoIf you are benchmarking, sure, it’s above par. But it had much more promise than that, and perhaps my mourning of it’s compromised potential comes off as dismissive. I was on the standards committee for it and researched decentralized social network protocols full time for many years, so it’s a bit personal for me. If only people knew just how much better things could be. I see it as a personal failure that I’m not better at communicating that vision.
oh :/
smallcircles ( @humanetech@lemmy.ml ) 2•2 years agoIf only people knew just how much better things could be.
This is where I’m advocating a lot. Btw, I took note on major challenges to overcome to be able to go much further than where we are now (and not slide backwards either). See: https://discuss.coding.social/t/major-challenges-for-the-fediverse/67
The majority of these challenges relate to social issues, btw. Or sociotechnical, if you will.
BobIsMyManager ( @BobIsMyManager@noc.social ) 2•2 years agoYep, and if you wanted a better data format for feeds, checkout json feed: https://jsonfeed.org
electrodynamica ( @electrodynamica@mander.xyz ) 4•2 years agoIt does have a few minor improvements. But that’s mostly just because it’s newer. It’s important to understand that the problems with RSS have nothing to do with it being XML. We should set and even demand a much higher bar.
In data science, serialization matters very little.
Lvxferre ( @lvxferre@lemmy.ml ) 12•2 years agoRSS/Atom is comfy and does what I need it to do: it tells me when a page is updated.
✨ krawieck ✨ ( @krawieck@lemmy.ml ) 11•2 years agolol how do you replace tinder with rss?
OsrsNeedsF2P ( @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ) 11•2 years agoPeople who use RSS as an aggregator - What’s your setup like?
deciocavallo ( @deciocavallo@lemmy.ml ) 6•2 years agoFreshRSS selfhosted on online web server. Using webapp on android
kevincox ( @kevincox@lemmy.ml ) 1•2 years agoI use an RSS-to-Email service to send updates to me. I then filter them into folders such as
Not Important
andVideos
for me to read when I have some downtime. (And a few feeds go to my Inbox for fast action).
dinomug ( @miguel@lemmy.ml ) 11•2 years ago noodlejetski ( @noodlejetski@lemmy.ml ) 8•2 years agoman, I wish. from what I’ve read Facebook has been making it difficult to access its content via RSS and I’d guess most of the services on the trolley do the same.
a bit off topic, but is there a Nitter/Invidious-like front-end for Facebook? for when you’d like to check pages of the businesses that use it as their main website, for example.
Cyclohexane ( @cyclohexane@lemmy.ml ) 2•2 years agoNot exactly the same as Nitter, but the closest is the Frost Android app.
noodlejetski ( @noodlejetski@lemmy.ml ) 3•2 years agoit just loads a Facebook website, which is what I’m trying not to do.
جيا ميڠ ( @j_ming@lemmy.ml ) 7•2 years agowho tf uses 4chan besides white supremacists 😂
Kilgore Trout ( @kilgore_trout@feddit.it ) 6•2 years agoThere’s more to 4chan than /b/ and /pol/
electrodynamica ( @electrodynamica@mander.xyz ) 6•2 years agoMostly pubescent thinkers of all types. Same for Reddit and all the others with varying approaches to herding / shepherding.
Lvxferre ( @lvxferre@lemmy.ml ) 3•2 years agoI do. Mostly /a/, /ck/, /g/ and /vg/.
Yes, the place has been infested by Stormfront refugees, /pol/ is cancer central undergoing metastasis and spreading cancer everywhere, and /b/ managed to go from “this shithole was never good, but it’s funny” to “this unfunny shit needs to improve to become a shithole”. And the whole site has been redditised, so users there spend more time assuming words on the others’ mouths than actually discussing the topic.
However, it’s still a decent place to discuss random stuff. Your typical Anon is dumb as a brick, but at least not dumb as a snoo. Entitled whining leads you nowhere there so most entitled users either leave or stop whining. And there’s still some sense of humour left, not touched by the alt right.
gladiatorchocolate ( @gladiatorchocolate@lemmy.ml ) 6•2 years agoI’ve been trying to find a good reliable rss feed reader for android for a while now, still haven’t found a good one.
ailiphilia ( @ailiphilia@lemmy.ml ) 8•2 years agoI have been using Feeder for a while and it’s great imo.
gladiatorchocolate ( @gladiatorchocolate@lemmy.ml ) 3•2 years agoI tried that, but I just can’t stand its UI :(
BobIsMyManager ( @BobIsMyManager@noc.social ) 8•2 years agoI use a fork of it called readyou: https://github.com/Ashinch/ReadYou
foxglove ( @foxglove@lemmy.ml ) 5•2 years agoDang, that’s a really nice UI.
Arcaneslime ( @Arcaneslime@lemmy.ml ) 6•2 years agoATM I only use RSS for podcasts with AntennaPod, what am I missing out on?
BobIsMyManager ( @BobIsMyManager@noc.social ) 15•2 years agoReddit, youtube, blogs, etc all use RSS. Almost all content online has an RSS feed.
Zerush ( @Zerush@lemmy.ml ) 6•2 years ago notizie ( @notizie@poliverso.org ) 4•1 year ago@sexy_peach Since discovering Friendica’s native RSS support, I’ve finally been able to enjoy the full power of RSS! ❤️
Preston Maness ☭ ( @aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml ) 3•2 years agoActivityPub for me.